Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1925-12-23

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Demoted to American
and
Jewish Ideals
Volume VIII — No. 52
COLUMHUS, OHIO, DFX'EMBER 23, 1925
,Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 10c
Great Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine —
60,000 New Pioneers Expected to Arrive This Year
$200,000 Is Voted For I. O.B.B. Activities During Coming Year]
Urge-Observance of "Better Un¬ derstanding Day" by Nations of the World
PLANS FOR WORK IN
PALESTINE ADOPTED
CINCINNATI, OHIO —A budget of riO(>,(>(K> for the activities of tlid ll'ritli the coming year, $75,000 over the preceding year, \ voted by the Executive Committee the concluding session of its two day annual  meeting lierc.
An appeal for help in the crectio 1 of a club house for the B'nai B'rith lodge in Tel Aviv, Palestine, was fa vorably accepted as the result of rep resenfations made by Mr. Rehabiaaj Lewin-Epstcin, vice president of the Tel Aviv lodge.
Being Built
"This building is now in the proc ess of construction and will be used not only to house the activities of the lodge, but a,s a place for giving t( porary care to the large number immigrants, as well as a center for tourists," Mr. Lewin-Epstein statc<. "The lodge building will be character istically Oriental in its architecture, he said, "It is being built along lines that will synchronize with plai the modern city of Tel Aviv." Money] to help in the completion of building was provisionally granted by the Executive Committee and the matter was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means:
' An appeal for aid for a garden city in Palestine from another lodge of tliat country was presented by 'Mr Lewin-Epstein and favorably received by the Committee.
No Favoritism
The Executive Commititec's friend ¦ liness to the Palestinian and other ap¬ peals is in keeping,vvith its resolution adopted at the Sundajr session, which voiced the organization's inventions of showing no favoritism toward , Jewish movement but of^rppresenting | all opinion, whether prozionist or other¬ wise, contained within the membership.
An important action by the Com¬ mittee was the granting of additional money for the work of the Hillel Foundation wliich conducts religious work among Jewish students at the colleges. Following a report by Rab hi Benjamin Frankel, director of the Hillel Foundation, the Committee de¬ cided to establish a Jewish Student Organization at the University of Mich igan. The Committee plans to carry out a progra..; of establishing two new bodies each .-"ar for a period of ft years as decided by the convention of . the Constitution Grand Lodge in Atlantic .   City last April.
An interesting message telling of the first meeting since the war of delegates of German, English, Austrian, Polish, Russian and Czecho-Slovakian B'nai B'rith Lodges was received. This meet ing took place in Prague September 14th Members of the Committee expressed the opinion that this international meet ing might have the effect of helping to bring about peaceful cooperation among the nations of Europe,
The   increased   budget   will   be   used
partly to increase the work of the B'nai
B'rith among Jewish,immigrants in Mex
ico.     The   physical,   medical   and   ed-
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GERMAN JEWRY PLEDGES, SUPPORT TO ORT FUND
BERLIN, (J. T. A).-Support of German Jewry for the campaign of the Ort Reconstruction Fund was pledged yesterday at a meeting of German Jew¬ ish leaders which took place yesterday at the Kaiserhot Hotel.
The meeting was presided over by Dr. Leo Bacck, president of the Independent Order B'nai B'rith in Germany. Dr. Singalowsky, Ort worker, reported on the activities of the Fund. A resolution accepted by the gathering welcomed with
ithusiasm the purposes of the Ort and pledged the support of German Jewry toward the Fund.
Dr. Paul Nathan, president of the Hilfsverein der Deutschcn Juden, Otto Warburg, Dr. Baeck, Arthur Hantke, Brodnitz, Rabbi Hildesheimer, Aaron iHirsch were elected to the Ort campaign  committee.
The only country in the world whose doors are wide open to the homeless Jewish exiles of East¬ ern Europe,, Palestine, is now ab¬ sorbing the largest numbers of Jew¬ ish immigrants since the land was made available for mass JewisU colonization through Great Britain's mandate to promote the develop- ntent   of   the   Jewish   Homel'and
four thousand Jew grants monthly are now entering Palestine and arc settled on the land and in other sel{-.supporting] occupations through the various Zionist colonization agencies. With practically 20,000 additional imnu-] grants' certificates available during months and with an ever-increasing number grants coming to the country wit 1 capital of their own Zionist lead lers estimate that 00,000 new set tiers will be absorbed in the grow ing life of the country during thcl next year. To take full advantage of this tremendous Back-to-the- Soll Movement and to insure the steady development of the country, the Palestine funds have united this year under the leadership of Dr. Stephen S. Wise, to raise fo,-^
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000,000 to extend the agricultural colonization of the Jewish Home¬ land in line with the great immi¬ gration of the past year. Included in the $.j,000,'000 campaign of the United Palestine Funds Appeal are the Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod), Jewish National Fund, Hadassah and the Helbrew University Fund.
Robert L. Mellman Is Now Associated With Schanfarber and Walsh
Chkonici-e   readers   will   be   glad  to know that Robert L. Mellman, who has been active in Jew¬ ish    public    work for  a  number  of years, has success¬ fully   passed   the recent bar exam'- nations and is now associated with E.l J.   Schanfarbcr  & M. J. Walsh (fiO-l Yuster   Bldg.)   \\ the  general   prac- it ice of law. Among the various activities of Mr. Mellman during the past six years may be   mentioned   his   leadership   of   club] work at the Community House, his sec retarial work at the Columbus Hebrew School, and his social welfare work with the   Jewish   Welfare   Federation, also served  for a  period of time as principal of the Schonthal Community HoMsc   Religious   school.
T|ie   Chronicle   congratulates Mqtlman and extends  to him its  best wisiies for a successful legal career.
Jewish Unity Stressed I
By Council Juniors'
Mrs. Arthur Raif, N[ational Spokes-
,,jnan, .Pleads   for   Extensioh   of
Work Among Youth; Juniors
Now Number 6,500 Young
Men and Women
NEW YORK CITY.—Declaring that the one ideal to be impressed upon our young women today was the need and value of Jewish unity, Mrs. Arthur Raff of Highland ' Park, Illinois, national chairman of the committee on junior auxiliaries of the National Council of Jewish Women, pleaded, in a message addressed to the women of her organ- for the establishment of junior councils in every community.
'The board of managers of the coun- " stated Mrs. Raff, "had given a very effective impetus to the expansion of our junior program, through their decision permitting the founding of junior coun¬ cils in cities that have no senior counci. section, under certain arrangements. The fixed rule, heretofore, has been tha .| junior councils could be formed only in cities where they could be closely as¬ sociated with the program of a senior section. From many cities, requests have come to us to introduce our work and so lay the foundations for a body of women who had learnt the value and advantage of working together, regard¬ less of any special or distinct outlook that many among their number may cherish. These council juniors' build senior council sections for their cities that are now without them."
Mrs. Raff, who is herself a graduate from the junior ranks, having served the National Council of Jewish Juniors as its president, expressed her conviction that the junior program is destined to develop a host of capable leaders for tlje snior organization. . \
The juniors now number GoOO young icn and women in 83 cities, and reprc- iCo^ninncd on page 4)
ROBT MELLMAN.
Dr. Tobias Schanfarber To Become the Rabbi Emeritus of Temple
CHICAGO.—Dr. Tobias Schanfarber for over two decades head of K. A. M. Temple in this city has asked to be I relieved from all active service at this well-known synagogue. The trustees] have created for him the position Uabbi Emeritus for life with a salary! of $8,000 per annum.
(Note: Dr. Schanfarber is an uncle of Edwin J. Schanfarber of Columbus. He has been a frequent contributor to Jewish weeklies throughout the country. Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, who has been his associate for several years, is now-the active spiritual leader of the congregation.)
Official Program of The Jewish Religious
Education Association Convention to
be Held at Bryden Road Temple
December 27-December 29
Following is the official program of the Jewish Religious Education Associa-
convention, which begins its sessions at the Bryden Road Temple at ? P M
next Sunday, December 27, and continues till Tuesday afternoon December 29.
All are cordially invited to attend opening Session and reception Sunday evening.
PROGRAM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27
8. P. M. —Organ Prelude, Miss Nora Wilson.
Opening Prayer, Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, Columbus, Ohio. ' Address of Welcome—Joseph Schonthal  President Columbus Con¬
gress. Song by Congregation — "We Meet Again in Gladness."
Greetings — Mrs.   Marcus  Burnstine,  President  Temple  Sisterhood, Columbus, Ohio.
Response — Rabbi    David    Alexander,    Akron,    Ohio,    President J. R. E. A.
Vocal Solo —Miss Florence Eilber.
Address —"How   Is   the   Study   of   the   Prophets   Connected   with Modern Life?" Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Cleveland, Ohio. t Violin solo —Miss Etta May Thomas.
Lecture 1 — "Method of teaching Jewish Ceremonies and Customs in Religious  Schools," Dr. Emanuel' Gamoran, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Benediction — Rabbi Charles B. Latz, Canton, Ohio.
Reception in Temple Vestry Rooms by Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood
MONDAY, DECEMBER 28
9:30 A. M. — Rablii Jacoli Tarshish, Columbus, Ohio, presiding.
Lecture 2 — "Method of Teaching Jewish Ceremonies and Customs in Religious Schools," Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, Cincinnati, Ohio. 10:30 to 11:1.5 —Model Kindergarten Class, Miss Isabelle Weisskerz, Columbus. ll;l"i to H:.TO—Discussion —Miss Sarah Goldstein, Cleveland, Ohio. 11:30 to 12:30—lecture 3. — "Method of Teaching Jewish Ceremonies and Cus toms in Religious Schoqls," Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, Cincinnati Ohio. 12:30 to 1 — Dis'cussion. "¦'    " '    '
1:00 P. M. —Luncheon, under auspices of Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood.
Business meeting during luncheon.    Report of officers. 2:3(> to 3 P. M. — Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, Columbus, Ohio, Chairman. "Hebrew as a Living Language." , ¦      Discussion. 3:00 to 3:30—Rabbi David Alexander, Akron, Ohio.    *
3:30 to 4:00—"How to Emphasize Festivals in Jewish Religious School Cur¬ riculum," Mrs. Lee J. Levinger, Columbus, Ohio. •4:00 to 4:30 — Discussion, Mrs. Victor Mandcl, Cleveland, Ohio. 4:30 to 5:30 —Sectional Meetings.
Section 1. —Kindergarten and Primary Work, Miss Isabelle Wolf- stein,' Cincinnati, Ohio. Section 2. — Intermediate Department,  Miss Frieda  Schlitt, Akron,
Ohio. Section 3.—r High School Work, Myron Guren, Cleveland, Ohio. 7:00 P. M. —Banquet and Dance at Southern Hotel auspices of Temple Israel.
Dotibt Authenticity
of Arizona Relics
Jewish Scholars Suggest Further Investigation; Dr. Adier Doubts Possibility of a Pre-Spanish Settlement in Southwest¬ ern America
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (J. T. A.)- 'The statement from a staff correspond ent 'of the New York Times, indicating the general belief in Tucson, Arizona, that except for small groups, no lieves the story that the articles were left by Europeans who preceded Colum¬ bus to America, is a sound conclusion," Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of Dropsie College, declared to the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here.
"The illustrations which appeared in the Times are not sufficiently clear to en able me to express any independent opin ion. The likelihood of a pre-Spanish settlement in southwestern America of any except Indians is extremely slight, generally accepted that the Amer- continent was peopled from Asia, with which there was a land connection but there is no likelihood that they brought any such objects with them.
About 1850, a similar excitement wa created by tlie finding of Hebrew in¬ scription and sculptures very deep- down Newark, Ohio, coiitaining, among other things, the Ten Commandments. After a number of years it was shown that these finds were a fraud perpetrated the endeavor to prove that the Amer- n Indians were the descendants of a lost Israelite tribe. In any event, an archaeological trial by the newspapers will not settle this archseological ques¬ tion," Dr. Adler stated.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (J. T. A)- "Regarding the discovery of leaden ar¬ ticles bearing Hebrew   and   Latin scriptions near Tucson, Arizona, I would say that the excavators must be satis fied that'their so-called discovery should pass the scientific tests for verificati( declared Dr. Nathaniel Reich, professor of Egyptology at Dropsie College, to the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
"Science must always be on its guard against possible forgeries of such find ings. I have my suspicions about those findings. I note on a few of them the good English word 'Gaul' for 'Gallia' then too, the vocalization system used as early as 730 A. D. was almost un known to Christians of thalt period Furthermore, the letters are always done by the same hand, during a period of 125 years.
"I recall the story, of the discovery of a large scarab, which happened some years ago, on which was engraved ii Hieroglyphics, the story of the noted circumnavigation of Africa under the reign of the pharaoh Nekh'o, of which we are informed by Herodotus. Gram¬ matical investigation of the text proved it to be a forgery. I also remember other hoaxes shown to. mc when I was curator  in  museums.
"However, fo pass a final judgment, it is absolutely necessary to wait, for the scientific, geological report, and for the photographs, casts of the objects found and  their  inscriptions.
he writers were certainly not Jews,' Professor   Reich   declared.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29
Rabbi  Soloino^i Goldman, Cleveland, Ohio, presiding.
9:30 to 10;00—"Supervision and Administrative Work in Religious Schools," .Solomon Bluhm, Cleveland, Ohio.
10:00 to 10:15 —Discus^ipji.    Miss, Ethel  Lauterbach,
10:15 to 10:15 —"Ouglit  the  Jewish   Religious   Schools   Be  Departmentalized," Rabbi Charles Latz, Canton, Ohio.
10:45 to 11:00 —Discussion —Eva Hprbst, Cincinnati, Ohio.
11:00 to 12:00—"UsQ of Slides and Films in Teaching Religious School Sub¬ jects, Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, Columbus, Ohio.
12:00 to 12:30 —Discussion.
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MRS. EDW. HYMAN WILLS $250 FOR CONGREGATION TEMPLE ISRAEL OF COLS.
At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of Temple Israel, a very pleas surprise was given to the members by an announcement from the president, Mr. Schonthal. He presented the con¬ gregation a check for $250.00 which was left in the will of Mrs. E<lward Hyman 889 E. Rich St., who passed away sev eral months ago. Mrs. Hyman vim very much interested in the Temple and took this beautiful means of showing her interest after she had passed away.
Cadman Predicts U. S. Will Be In World Court In One Year
Declares   That   Hebrews,   Prot¬ estants and Catholics Can Be Brought Together for the Common Good
SAYS ALL RELIGIONS MADE CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD'S PROGRESS
Points Out  Unique  Position  of
Jews Among the Peoples of
the World and Stresses Im<
portance of Mutual
Understanding
The United States will enter the world court "for justice for everybody" before id of another year. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Brooklyn, N, Y., minister, pre-' dieted last Thursday night, in his ad¬ dress at a "good-will dinner" of more than COO Christians and Jews in the Chit¬ tenden.
His audience, composed of members of almost every religious faith in Co¬ lumbus, cheered his prediction.. Dr. Cad- head of the Federal Council of Churches in Christ in America, is tour¬ ing the Middle West in an effort to pro¬ mote a better understanding between Catholics, Protestants and Jews.
Democracy is only on trial in Amer¬ ica, he asserted, and it will fail unless religion comes to its aid. History is filled with the debris of fallen powers whose people forgot religion.
The United States, founded on re¬ ligious principles, and those principles of religious freedom, must reconcile its- clashing opinions and its alien races, and 'melting pot rather than a garbage pail" if it is to survive as a world power, he declared.
It is not an impossible task to har¬ monize the Jewish and Protestant and Christian differences, he declared. Un¬ der the stress of the war they were welded into a homogeneous people and they can be brought shoulder to shoul¬ der in peace as Vfell.
There are no fronties in art. We can appreciate a Rembrandt or a Murillo, he . declared.
-'-There are no frontiers in literature..
There are no frontiers in science.   There
frontiers in music.   We all know
the difference between music and jazz,"
he said.
No Frontiers Needed, There need be no frontiers in reli¬ gion. He asserted he has "no desire to convert a single Jew or Catholic from his own faith any more than I will give up mine," but "each can go in his own way toward the same goal," without malice or misunderstanding. He told of a Jewish colonel who didd the division in which he served dur¬ ing the war, at the head of his regi¬ ment after fighting with conspicuous gallantry and declared that "any man who is good enough to die for his coun¬ try is good enough to have all the priv- 'ileges of citizenship."   '
Society has becni busily organizing its prejudices, but there has been no or¬ ganization of its sympathies, he said. The first community in the world in which complete religious freedom for all people was permitted was founded by Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic, in Maryland, "and let. my brethren of the Ku Klux Klan read that at all their meetings for the next six months," he' challenged.
He praised former Senator Albert J. Bevericjge of Indiana ,as a litterateur, but rapped sharply his statement in "the drummer's gospel—The Saturday Eve¬ ning Post," that America is a "mongrel nation" in which the. warring elements cannot be reconciled. •
We have not the leaders of past ages, because we are thinking too much of ourselves and not enough of others. Dr. Cadman declared. Athens, gave to the world a galaxy of artists attd thinkers . and orators whose names have endured through the centuries, although "Athens as no bigger than Jersey City." "What has Jersey City ever given to the world, except a termhial for the Pennsylvania Railroad?" he demanded. In all our colleges, "even Ohio State University, that fountain-head of sweet¬ ness and light, according to the newspa¬ pers," there is no thinker like Socrates, nor orator like Demosthenes, nor any who can compare with Euclid, he as¬ serted.
Carthage thought only of money and power and conquest, and no one can re¬ member anything from Carthage, "be¬ cause nobody in Carthage ever said any¬ thing worth remembering." Tliej-e is no virtue in being big. Power and money will serve only, to drown the higher im¬ pulses of brotherhood and service.
It is a disgrace-to the chur<^e3 that
the membersi have had to turn to the
Rotary Club and the caintnuiiity fund
to get wliat the churches should have
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